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ArticleAbout Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Project
… a joint project between the Department of Education, South African History Online and the South African History Archive (SAHA). SAHA is assisting with the ……
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… and technology. Second, the racial structure of South African capitalism (narrow home consumer market, skill … A concomitant sharp decrease in the value of…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… also became involved in the establishment of the South African Labour Bulletin as a vehicle to advance these … labour from the nadir of the repression of the…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Bloemfontein
… Free State by the British army in 1900, four prominent African political organizations emerged. The ORC Native … that only operated in Bloemfontein and Thaba…
ArticleThe Linton Panel & the San language
… panel of rock art now housed and displayed in the South African Museum in Cape Town. In 1917, this panel was removed … panel one of the best preserved of all…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… trade unions was met with severe reprisals from the South African regime. Luderitz, a harbour town in southwest Namibia … very little about trade union work…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… The involvement of the South African national rugby team, the Springboks, in international … international rugby in 1992. On 23 March 1992, the South African…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… an Afrikaner economy, and to gain control of the South African government. During the 1930s the Afrikaner … merged the National Party (NP) with Jan Smuts '…
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… at Fort Hare. His stay at Fort Hare introduced him to African intellectuals from the Eastern Cape. Essak excelled …
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… a watershed for youth politics in South Africa. The South African Student Organisation (SASO) was gathering support … were beginning to have a wider reach…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… and armed struggle anchored in the banning of the South African Communist Party(SACP) in 1950, the Sharpeville … massacre in 1961 and the subsequent bannings…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… there was a global economic crisis. As a result, the South African currency lost value, the gold price dropped; … resisted apartheid to some extent, but also…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
… Liberia and Ethiopia, was under colonial rule. Today, African countries are politically independent of their former … developed as a socialist state,…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… and the Afrikaner republics were dislodged from the land. African, Coloured and Indian and other Asiatic we segregated … land control systems in South Africa…
ArticleInqaba ya basebenzi
… in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress documents the workers' struggle for … are issues debated at length, placed in the…
ArticleAfrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
… is where we ended and the third Boer War, another South African war, will start here again. The town has a history … steeped in bloody relations between the…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Timbuktu, French Tombouctou, is a city in the western African country of Mali. Often used as a popular term to … through the Sahara desert to the countries…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… settlements and amongst women. According to the South African constitution , all people have the right to have … infection in South Africa, several studies…
The National Flag
… The national flag was designed by a former South African State Herald, Mr Fred Brownell, and was first used on … as the convergence of diverse elements…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… had seen some of the most turbulent events in South African history, the first signs that the apartheid regime … on 19 October 1977: Black People's…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… Audience Following the Soweto uprising of 1976, the South African government placed increased importance on controlling … the Soweto uprising and its brutal…
His Life and Legacy - Oliver Tambo
… Oliver Reginald Tambo , leader of the African National Congress in exile for thirty years, died on … and affirmed the abiding vision of the ANC itself. The…
Liberation organisations
… on the Freedom Charter . The UDF was supported by the African National Congress (ANC) in exile. The End Conscription Campaign The South African Defense Force…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… country to appeal to the UN on the basis of how South African Indians were being wrongfully racially segregated and … which is being boycotted. To this end,…
ArticleHighlights for 2013
… South African History Online believes that history is made every … SANDF soldiers. South Africa April 2 2013 Jacob Zuma South African troops to pool out of…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… in late 19th and early 20th Centuries. After the South African War of 1899-1902 (also known as the Anglo-Boer War, … of thousands of Chinese to undercut any…
PAC office bearers
… of Azania (PASMA) The Pan Africanist Movement (PAM) Young African Christian Movement (YACM) National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU) African Women’s…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… are imprisoned. Leabua rules until 1986 1980 The Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) is … eight others killed in a raid into Lesotho…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… constitution. The moment which changed the path of South African history came after long and tension-ridden … negotiations held between 1991 and 1992. The…
ArticleHow do we find out about the history of a local area?
… a tradition that is still used in South Africa. Many South African cultures have storytellers who don’t only tell us … disagree. Gcina Mhlope, copyright…